Dave Smith - one of the Engineers
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Few more consoles parts to order.....
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Brian - our purchasing man.
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Martin and John discuss the consoles
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On my lunch break at last!
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In 1996, things were looking bleak for DDA, because our sister company called
Klark-Teknik decided to buy our products and take our staff!!
This company was based in Kidderminster therefore a few redundancies was
on the agenda.
Gradually the shop-floor was cleared out as well as the
workers.
Luckily Alwyn was headhunted by his previous company, Avolites and
therefore left in November 1996
Remaining together at DDA would have been an unpromising future for us, so I
stayed on for another year.
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After Alwyn's departure I had to be in charge of the design of all
PCB Consoles alongside with Dave Dearden, the director. I was involved in
the design of the DDA CS12 console - stage monitor desk and was pleased to
say that everything went smoothly!
There were many other duties I had to take on after Alwyn left, such as the
parts library and all its intricacies!
And not to forget Gerbering the files. That was another stressful task too
as they were crucial for the manufacturers to begin their process!
Sadly many staff had now left and I also decided to terminate my job with
the company in August 1997.
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Consoles and workers on the shopfloor
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1997
- Temping days!
After having become pregnant in September 1997 we were quite overjoyed with the news.
It was the right timing, being out of employment, however I preferred to work and was quite fit enough to do
so and
luckily I had no morning sickness!
I tried some temping jobs, such as the Royal Marsden Hospital in
Kensington as a Receptionist, followed by the Office of Fair Trading in
London.
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